病気をめぐるレジリエンス─ガーナ・アサンテのアスラムという病気を事例として─

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  • ビョウキ オ メグル レジリエンス : ガーナ ・ アサンテ ノ アスラム ト イウ ビョウキ オ ジレイ ト シテ
  • Resilience on Healing: Infant’s Disease of Asram in the Asante in Ghana

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Since the 16th century, Europeans have turned to the west coast of the African continent to obtain rich mining resources as well as human labour. Modern medical care was brought to Africa to protect these Europeans activities, in the process also allowing the Europeans to justify these activities as a ‘transplantation of civilization’. Modern medicine is a general term for a medical system called biomedicine / Western medicine, and refers to the natural scientific knowledge of the time. The process of introducing biomedicine reflects the thoughts of the governors about the human body and at the same time, highlights people’s ideas of sickness and the associated thoughts and practices. In the first section, I will describe the medical policy that the UK implemented in the colony called the Gold Coast in the name of modernization, by use of official archival materials. The colonial government systematically introduced biomedicine through the establishment of laws, regulations, and decrees; it also used police control to reshape the people’s lifeworld. In section 2, I will describe the prohibited indigenous treatments and customs in the people’s lifeworld in the colonial period and clarify the process by which the colonial government regulated people’s living space through schools and the police. In section 3, I will focus on the discourse and treatment practices related to people’s illnesses in modern Asante society. While accepting modern medicine, these people are creating treatment practices that combine indigenous treatment and Christianity. Specifically, I will clarify the Asante’s notion of humans through this group’s discourses relating to the sickness called asram, which is said to be untreatable with modern medicine. We can view the resilience relating to the notion of human beings, a strength that has the potential to de-medicalise the biomedical view of human beings.

多文化社会研究, 6, pp.295-316; 2020

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